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Counterpoint: Epidemiology to Guide Decision-Making: Moving Away From Practice-Free Research

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Analyses of observational data aimed at supporting decision-making are ideally framed as a contrast between well-defined treatment strategies. These analyses compare individuals' outcomes from the start of the treatment strategies under consideration. Exceptions to this synchronizing of the start of follow-up and the treatment strategies may be justified on a case-by-case basis.

Source: American Journal of Epidemiology

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv215

Author: Miguel A. Hernán

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

Subfield: Statistics and Probability

Field: Mathematics

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases